Multi purpose form - adapting drop down lists.

blueben — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:19:21 GMT

Hi,

I'm fairly new to Infopath; i've picked up most of the basic form design and sumbit options but some of the more advance stuff escapes me.

I currently designing a contract request form that needs to adapt to meet the needs of the country it is for. For example if someone selects 'France' as the target country, I would like the remaining drop down fields to change to meet French requirements and some sections to be included and others to be left out. I'm fairly confident I can use conditional formating to include and exclude sections but I'm a bit stumped to whether it's possible to filter the values in drop down menu's dependent on a choice in an initial field.

Also It would be really helpful if I could autopopulate these drop down entries rather than adding them manually as some of the lists are extremely long and prone to changing.

I'm assuming there should be someway of using Access or a data connection to do this but I can't work out how (I don't think having a limited knowledge of XML helps).

Thank you for your time.

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Multi purpose form - adapting drop down lists.